Hendrik willem van loon biography

Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a historian and children's writer.

Dutch american surnames

He was born Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in 1902.

Life

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He was born in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His father was also named Hendrik Willem van Loon.^[1] His mother was named Elisabeth Johanna Hankin.^[2] In 1902, he went to the United States to study at Cornell University.

He graduated from Cornell in 1905.

The giver

In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch. Her father was a teacher at Harvard. They had two sons, Henry Bowditch van Loon and Gerard Willem van Loon. After they got married, Hendrik and Eliza moved to Munich, Germany.

Hendrik van loon

Hendrik studied at the University of Munich. In 1911 he got his Ph.D. He had to write a long paper to show that he was a good enough student to get the Ph.D. The paper he wrote was called The Fall of the Dutch Republic. In 1913 he published it as a boo